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William Colby and his wife Barbara are the only children in their for a large family. They had five children, four of whom are still respective families. As a result of .childhood loneliness, they opted living: Jonathan, 27; Carl, 23; Paul, 18, and Christine, 14. Elam Colt New Director of Ike CIA: He's Clubs the ME's Image by Lloyd Shearer

WASHINGTON, D.C. he Central Intelligence Agency is intelligence theory and technique. ruling with the promise of a $400,000 take place, the CIA has hired merce, suffering from a badly tarnished And worse yet, from a public rela- contribution to the Republican cam- naries in Southeast Asia, overflown the image, and its new director, William tions viewpoint, it has stupidly involved paign fund of 1972. Moreover, it al- , dropped agents into Red TEgan Colby, 54, is charged with bur- itself in the domestic scandals of the lowed its personnel to prepare a psy- China, structured its own airline out of nishing it. Nixon Administration by furnishing chological profile on Ellsberg for the Taiwan, conspired to overthrow various This is no easy job, since over the equipment to E. Howard Hunt Jr. to White House. regimes in various parts of the world years the CIA has generated on the help break into and burglarize the Bev- Leading participants from Iran to Cambodia to Cuba, and in domestic front- a closed, mysterious, erly Hills office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, general, has consistently intervened in excessively secretive and sinister image. psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg of Pen- And two of its former employees, E. the domestic affairs of foreign nations. It has also violated the legislation of its tagon Papers notoriety. Howard Hunt and James McCord, were With that agency background of con- • origin. The CIA also provided Hunt with leading characters in the Watergate troversial hits and misses, Director Created in 1947 specifically to gather false identity equipment so that he fiasco, to say nothing of the four Cu- Colby has his image-changing work cut .-2 "Foreign Intelligence," it has inter- could fly to Denver and.try to talk Dita ban-Americans who were hired to do out for him. He is approaching it with :, vened in American student organiza- Beard into denying that she ever wrote the actual- dirty work. care and vigor. He is inviting newsmen lions. It haS trained about 50 police of- the infamous ITT memo, coupling a Overseas, of course, where most of to lunch with him, to ask questions, to 1'. ficers from a dozen American cities in favorable anti-trust Justice Department its clandestine as well as overt activities visit CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., 4 where the access road now bears a sign, tivist than student, those who are mare imperialist conspiracy, a class society 1920, the only child of Elbridge Colby, plainly lettered CIA. It used to say Bu- the engineer than liberal art buff. and that there must be, according to an Army officer. He was reared at var- • reau of Public Roads. He even allowed We're wide open for the person who their doctrine, a revolution, a change ious Army posts, spent three years 'of PARADE to interview his wife, the for- believes we have an essential function in our society. his youth (1929-32) in Tientsin, China, mer Barbara Heinzen, a delightful to perform." "It's a religious belief, acid from time entered Princeton in 1936 and was woman with printer's ink in her blood According to Colby, the primary to time the Soviets have engaged in graduated four years later. He entered who helped put him through Columbia function of the CIA is apple-pie simple: the process of trying to encourage it Law School but University Law School by working as a "We gather information from all over along. left after his first year to join the para- department store copywriter and editor the world in order to learn as much as "America has gotten into several chute corps. of a New York State labor publication. we can about foreign problems so that wars in this century, started by people "He had to memorize the eye chart Soft-speaking and low-key, Colby, a we can decide what to do about them. who thought we-either would not or in order to get in," his wife reveals. 24-year unpretentious veteran of the "We have various ways of gathering could not stand up to them. Kaiser Wil- "But he memorized one line back- spy business, believes in opening up information—reading newspapers, tak- helm thought we would not join World. wards. When he took the eye test, he the CIA without disclosing its secrets. ing photographs, listening to electronic War I. Adolf Hitler was quite certain cited the letters incorrectly. He wanted He is allowing the TV networks to noises in the atmosphere, and employ- that we would stay out of World War so badly to get in, however, that they take a guided tour of the agency. He is ing clandestine activity where it's essen- II. Josef Stalin thought we would not looked the other way and the examin- permitting his men to identify them- tial. We gather the information, analyze fight in Korea and Ho Chi Minh cer- ing officer said, 'So long as you can see selves over the telephone instead of it, think about it, come to some judg- tainly felt we could not stop his effort the ground we'll take you.'" switching the caller to an extension ment or estimate the situation and relay to take over . Where Colby served as a staff lieutenant in number. He is preparing succinct in- it to the national leadership, executive, people realized we not only could but the 462nd Parachute Artillery Battalion telligence summaries instead of pon- legislative, and indirectly, even to the would fight—for example, in the Berlin (he had attended the ROTC at Prince- derous, bulky reports and forwarding public so that the U.S. can make in- Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis—we ton) and was fired when a new com- them to interested parties with a phone formed judgments and decisions." have had no war. Having a CIA is like mander joined the 462nd and replaced number to call in case they need more Colby, who will finish his first year as having insurance. You pay for it, but the old staff with a new one. Lieutenant detailed information. director of the CIA on Sept. 4 this year, hopefully it's worth it." Colby found himself in a replacement believes the agency is indispensable, Conscious of public opinion Head of 'black operations' pool, which he didn't like. When an "because I do not think the U.S. today officer came through, looking for vol- He is aware of the mounting public can afford the luxury of being blind in Bill Colby, 5 feet 11, thin, trim, with unteers for an overseas operation, code- criticism which holds that his 16,000- the world or of hoping to learn enough pale blue myopic eyes helped by named JEDBURGH, he quickly volun- man agency is spending approximately of what's going on through the public glasses, is a lawyer by training. He looks teered, thus becoming a member of $750 million of the taxpayers' money press and other media." like a lawyer, also like a teacher, a Gen. William Donovan's intelligence each year without enough public ac- He knows, he says; that the U.S. has minister, a banker, a doctor, anything- service, the Office of Strategic Services. countability through the various Con- no intention of invading the Soviet except what he is—the nation's chief As a member of the jED's, Colby para- gressional subcommittees charged with Union and is sure the Soviet Union has spooksman who for years was deputy chuted in uniform to help resistance tracking the CIA. And he is mindful of no intention of invading us. "But I think director of the CIA's clandestine or groups in during the weeks fol- inadequacies in the agency's recruiting the Soviet Union has a philosophy "black operations" directorate. lowing the Allied landing. program, especially of minorities. which holds that America is run by an He was born in St. Paul, Minn., in continued "What we're looking for," he ex- plains, "are young men and women who are interested in intellectual and technical pursuits. Intelligence is tech- nical these days. We're in the market for something like 130 specialist disci- plines, running all the way from nuclear physicists to financial economists. We need every kind of specialty to help in our total' intelligence process. "We especially need women and blacks. We don't have enough of them as professional intelligence officers. A few months ago I gathered together all the middle managers in the agency and I gave them a very direct talk. I told them I wanted to see the number of blacks and the number of women in responsible jobs rise sharply. Opportunity and challenge

"We also need," Colby concedes, "some fellows who will run some clan- destine operations for us. They have to be fellows with a little bit of adventure in their spirit and frequently quite a lot of courage. But I'm not going around saying, 'Join the CIA instead of the Fish and Wildlife Service.' And I'm not go- ing around saying, 'Join the CIA and save the world.' People who want an interesting, fascinating challenging ca- Colby was sworn in as director of the CIA on Sept. White House ceremony are President , reer can find it in the CIA, and that in- 4, 1973. He is the second career intelligence officer former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thom- cludes those who are more student to achieve that rank. The first was who as Moorer, Secretary of State and Sec- than activist, those who are more ac- is now our ambassador to Iran. Looking on at the retary of Defense James Schlesinger, and Colby's wife.

5 CIA CONTINUED

He was to cool and outstanding in Came next his first three-year stint in action'that he was chosen despite his Vietnam, ostensibly as first secretary of young age, 24, to command a group the American Embassy in Saigon, his of Norwegian-American paratroopers first assignment in Asia. Colby was, of charged with sabotaging Germari rail- course, much more than that. He was way operations in Norway. According probably the shining light of the intelli- gence community, The Toed brothers were two Many heads turned when Charles Tripp, "Armless Wonder," to Harris Smith, an historian of the OSS: performing so well boys down to the sixth rib, but and his friend Eli Bowen, "Legless Wonder," rode their bicycle "The drop was finally made from Amer- in his situational assignments and van- only one below. built for two. ican aircraft staffed by inexperienced , ous cloak-and-dagger assignments that crews in late March, 1945. Two of the he was brought back to CIA headquar- planes crashed and ten OSS men were ters in Washington and appointed chief killed. Colby and those OSS men who of its Far Eastern Division. did reach their destination were forced The most controversial segment of to operate with a minimum of supplies; William Colby's intelligence career the American planes had dropped their concerns his involvement in the Viet- equipment a bit off target—in ." namese pacification program known as College sweetheart "CORDS," an acronym for "Civil Oper- ations and Revolutionary Development Discharged from the Army as a ma- Support." One paft of this program was jor, young Colby married Barbara the operation code-named Phoenix. Heinzen whom he'd dated in 1941 Just as he was about to become chief when she was a junior at Barnard Col- of the CIA's Soviet operations in 1968, lege and he a first-year law student at Colby was sent back to Vietnam on the Columbia. request of , a former CIA They were married in St. Patrick's man, and given ambassadorial rank. He Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and then . was placed in charge of South VietnaM's Myrtle Corbin had-four legs. Laloo, from India, had a small Daughter of a Ringling Brothers She is pictured with her husband twin attached to his breastbone. fat lady, Baby Ruth Pontieo Colby reentered Columbia Law. Before overall pacification program, sup- and one of her flee children. The twin was dressed as a girl. weighed 815 pounds. he was graduated he went to work for posedly designed "to win the hearts and The Struggles, Loves, and T riumphs of Human Oddities Maj. Gen. Bill Donovan's prestigious minds of the people." New York law firm, Donovan, Leisure, Abuses during Phoenix As a youngster, Francesco Lenthsl was so John Merrick, the grossly deformed Newton, Lombard and Irvine, many of shocked at what he saw in an institution "Elephant Man," was deserted by his The Phoenix portion of the program, for the severely handicapped that he never whose members had served with him in complained about his third leg again. heartless manager. Befriended by a kindly doctor, Merrick became quite the OSS. which aimed to neutralize the VietOong famous and was frequently visited In 1949 after a two-year stint with the infrastructure, involved the capture, These are just a few of the many by Royalty. "mistakes of Nature" included in The stories in this book are true, Donovan firm, Colby joined the Na- imprisonment, defection, and murder. Frederick Drimmer's fascinating and we have over 65 rare photos to of the Vietcong. There were abuses in new book, VERY SPECIAL prove it. Never has one book been so tional Labor Relations Board in-Wash- PEOPLE. What makes them very complete. There are chapters on ington. He wasn't particularly happy or its execution, and as Colby conceded special is that they were all born giants, dwarfs, fat people, armless in February, 1970, to the Senate Foreign "curiosities" and they all lived and legless wonders, hermaphrodites fulfilled as a lawyer, and one evening unusual lives. Like Chang and (half man, half woman), bearded he remarked to his wife, "I don't know. Relations Committee, ".. I would not Eng, the original Siamese twins, ladies, and numerous other human who were joined at the chest oddities. I just 'don't want to go through life sav- want to testify that nobody was killed for life. They married sisters, This is not just a picture book of ing $100,000 a year for American Can wrongly or executed in this kind of a set up separate homes, and "freaks." The author treats these peo- fathered 22 children be- ple with insight, compassion and the —or some other corporation." program. I think it has probably hap- tween them! dignity one earns by being born dif- pened, unfortunately." But there are Then there was Grace ferent from everyone else. Call of the CIA McDaniels, billed as the ugliest VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE will excesses in all wars, and it seems mani- woman who ever lived (and her also teach you one of the most im- . When the Korean War broke out, Bill festly unfair to brand Colby a "mass photo proves it). Believe it or portant lessons that life has to offer: not, Grace received several the incredible ability of man's mind, Colby, an adventurer by heart, joined murderer and war criminal" which was proposals of marriage before she accepted one soul, and spirit to overcome any from a handsome young man. They had a physical imperfection...no matter how hopeless the Central Intelligence Agency. Under done by those in the intelligence com- perfectly normal son, who grew up to be his it may appear. Read this book and you'll never one guise or another he has been with munity who last year opposed his ap- mother's manager! indulge in self-pity again. the agency ever since, generally fighting pointment as CIA director. No one ever Only $5.95, hard covered, 412 pages, 67 photographs. communism. called him such names in World War II (MONEYBACK GUARANTEE) In from 1951 to 1953 he when he was killing Germans. And few St.141. was listed as a foreign service attaché. people realize how chaotic "Phoenix" BROADWAY BOOKFINDERS,DEPT. RS-171 N. In from 1953 to 1958, where he was until he took it over, 245 WEST 19 ST., NEW YORK, N.Y.100112 was unofficially known as "one of Clare Please rush me _Very Special People at $5.95 es. Legendary on posters (plus 60¢ post. and hand.) Enclosed is my check/ Boothe Luce's boys," he was officially M.O. for $_ . If not completely satisfied, 12111 return it within 15 days for a full refund. carded as "first secretary and special Colby does not look or act like an 4 fr assistant to the ambassador." In Rome exquisitely sensitive man, but during 197 vt, name where his wife recalls, "we lived five the period of his Senatorial confirma- please print

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Co/by served two tours of duty in Vietnam. There,his involvement in the pacification program turned out to be the most controversial segment of his intelligence career.

deeply hurt. One night he drove home Under Colby's regime the CIA is not to the unpretentious house he owns in only projecting a more open and can- Springfield, Va., a capital suburb, plain- did image, it is undergoing a structural tively asked his wife, ''How does it transformation. Colby has abolished feel being married to a war criminal?" the 10-man Board of National Estimates A wife's feelings founded in 1950 and replaced it with a group of national intelligence officers, "My heart went out to him," Barbara each charged with preparing a series of Colby recalls, "because if ever there short-term intelligence assessments of was a good, decent man who has served their special areas. He has reduced the his country and his family—Bill has number of covert, so-called "black served every President from Franklin D operations" largely because satellite PROFESSIONAL BLOOD PRESSURE MACHINE Roosevelt to Nixon—well, it's Bill." equipment is so sophisticated today Although Colby is a Nixon appointee, that it can photograph and relay far he, unlike so many others, is not about more reliable information than that PAYS FOR ITSELF to follow orders blindly or to traffic provided by an agent dropped by plane With White House types like Ehrlichman or landed by submarine on foreign land. MANY TIMES OVER! and Dean who sought to compromise A practicing Roman Catholic, a pillar Compact unit in-zippered case travels where you do! No more waiting the CIA in the Watergate coverup. in community affairs, a hard7working for appointments, wasted hours in doctor's office ... No more exorbitant "I will do the proper and legitimate medical bills to keep tabs on unruly blood pressure! Now, take your own (Saturdays until 3 p.m.) civil servant pressure night or day, at home or away, accurately, scientifically. Preci- things under the statute that CIA has who earns $42,000 a year, a good and sion made Aneroid type sphygmomanometer with easy-read gauge is been charged to do," he says. "And if understanding father to his four sur- simple to use. Just wrap Velcro no-slip sleeve around arm and squeeze bulb. Lets you check "warning sign" fluctuations on the 'spot. PAYS I'm asked to do something beyond that viving children—a fifth died early this FOR ITSELF IN COST OF JUST legal authority, then I won't do it. I'll year of epilepsy—a loving and dutiful HOUSE TWO DOCTOR VISITS! Comes 1711011141T CONSUMER GUARAN1 resign." husband, William Colby has been a with compact zippered case. In line with that, Colby recently sup- professional intelligence officer for half One-year warranty. AH.0Hz32AN-1Y COUPON.. a - v U EM, D. ported an amendment to the National his adult years. Hanover RMC., Hanoat,. Pe... 17331 ▪ Security Act of 1947 which originally Blood Pressure Machine 4775"Z ,77,7,1:41,7,:grarhtg.Vrtg°,,,,:4 • No flag lapel pin- authorized the founding of the CIA. (Z73254) . . . Only $15.95 . ab.`:Itrsendt" I Tethasc'mPOP:;tr.; tot Init $4.95 ::.a51.4o cover p.p. handling on same lull money back I The amendment was introduced by The is indeed fortunate If you don't have one. I Sen. William Proxmire (D., Wis.) to in having him. As a lawyer he could be Professional Stethoscope . itgo,r,g( alra.,pigg xotsup-p..nrdc: (Z47258) available for "" "-". Z73353 protect the CIA from abuses emanating earning three times in civilian life what NMI,. Mel residents only $4.95. a add 'Mace.. Enclosed Is from the political system. It limits the •a COMM m DINERS CLUB 0 MASTER CNARCE I he earns in government service. "But it BANKAMERICARD 0 AMERICAN EXPRESS CIA to its basic mission of collecting wouldn't give me the satisfaction," he DON'T DELAY THIS MAY I My Card (ay. BE THE BEST "LIFE INSURANCE" Acct. I foreign intelligence and closes a loop- says, "that I find in this job." Colby • BM YOU'VE EVER MADE! ••••••• Charge InteMank — hole in the 1947 act which permitted wears no flag pins in his lapel to dem- the agency to get itself so disastrously onstrate his patriotism. It goes much HANOVER HOUSE,.• involved in domestic intelligence. • IPLEWSZ PAM, deeper than that. Hanover Bldg.. Hanover. Penna. 17331 • ADDRESS

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